Global Market Comments February 4, 2016 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (PERFECT STORM HITS THE BANKS), (PFF), (BAC), (C), (JPM), (USO), (BUSINESS IS BOOMING AT THE MONEY PRINTERS), (TESTIMONIAL)iShares US Preferred Stock (PFF) Bank of America Corporation (BAC) Citigroup Inc. (C) JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) United States Oil (USO)
There is no better sight to a hungry trader than blood in the water. ?Buy them when they?re cryin? is an excellent investment strategy that always seems to work. There are rivers of tears being shed over the banking industry right now. Federal Reserve officials openly told investors that after the December ?% rate hike
Global Market Comments February 3, 2016 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (WATCH OUT FOR THE HEAD AND SHOULDERS), (SPY), (TLT), (GLD), (SLV), (THE SERVICE JOB IN YOUR FUTURE), (MCD)? SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond (TLT) SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) iShares Silver Trust (SLV) McDonald's Corp. (MCD)
?As for the Swiss franc, there?s blood in the street and on the walls,? said Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of the Blackstone Group, a global private equity firm.
Global Market Comments February 2, 2016 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (FEBRUARY 3 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR), (MORE PAIN TO COME IN OIL) (USO), (XOM), (OXY), (COP), (DAL) (TESTIMONIAL)United States Oil (USO) Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM) Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY) ConocoPhillips (COP) Delta Air Lines, Inc. (DAL)
There are very few people I will drop everything to listen to.One of the handful is Daniel Yergin, the bookish founder and CEO of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, the must-go-to source for all things energy.Daniel received a Pulitzer Prize for The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, a rare feat for a
Global Market Comments February 1, 2016 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (BANK OF JAPAN BOMBSHELL BOOSTS MARKETS), (FXY), (YCS), (DXJ), (UUP), (SPY), (TLT), (GLD), (USO), (CRASH TESTING THE TESLA), (TSLA)CurrencyShares Japanese Yen ETF (FXY) ProShares UltraShort Yen (YCS) WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity ETF (DXJ) PowerShares DB US Dollar Bullish ETF (UUP) SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY)
I was just about to don my backpack and head out for my evening hike when I caught a phone call from Tokyo. The Bank of Japan had just announced they were implementing negative interest rates for the first time in history. The Japanese yen (FXE), (YCS) was in free fall and the stock market
The Tesla Model S1 (TSLA) has been rated by Consumer Reports magazine as the best car ever built, grabbing a covered 100 score out of 100. They called the vehicle ?perfect.? It has been ranked by the US government Department of Transportation as the safest car ever built. Even competitors love the car. So I
?Wall Street subprimed commodities,? said Brian Reynolds, chief market strategist of Rosenblatt Securities, of the oil price crash.
Global Market Comments January 29, 2016 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (FEBRUARY 3 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR), (WHY YOUR OTHER INVESTMENT NEWSLETTER IS SO DANGEROUS), (ANOTHER NAIL IN THE NUCLEAR COFFIN), (NLR), (CCJ)Market Vectors Uranium+Nuclear Engy ETF (NLR) Cameco Corporation (CCJ)
Southern California Edison (SCE/PF) has announced that it is permanently shuttering its controversial nuclear power plant at San Onofre, California. The move is only the latest in a series of closures implemented by utilities around the country, and could well spell the end of this flagging industry. This is further dismal news for holders of
?The stupid market clich? about catching a falling knife is actually happening now. This is a falling knife. You have to look at the market as a hot air balloon. You only want to grab it as it is going up. I don?t think dollar cost averaging is the plan here,? said Bob Iaccino at
Global Market Comments January 28, 2016 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (WHY THE REAL ESTATE BOOM HAS A DECADE TO RUN), (DHI), (LEN), (PHM), (THE TECHNICAL/FUNDAMENTAL TUG OF WAR: WHO WILL WIN?) DR Horton Inc. (DHI) Lennar Corporation (LEN) PulteGroup, Inc. (PHM)
Real estate brokers are still reeling from the news that December existing home sales rocketed by a blockbuster 14.7%, to an annualized 5.46 million units. And now I hear that Apple (AAPL) is planning on building a second new research and development campus that will need 20,000 new high tech workers. The housing crisis here
?Almost all asset markets are bubbles and mispriced,? said Bill Gross of bond giant PIMCO.
Global Market Comments January 27, 2016 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (2015 TRADE ALERT REVIEW), (AAPL), (GILD), (GS), (PANW), (IWM), (SPY), (GLD), (TLT), (LINE), (VIX), (XIV), (SIGN UP NOW FOR TEXT MESSAGING OF TRADE ALERTS) Apple Inc. (AAPL) Gilead Sciences Inc. (GILD) The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (GS) Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (PANW) iShares Russell 2000
When is the Mad Hedge Fund Trader a genius, and when is he a complete moron?That is the question readers have to ask themselves whenever their smart phones ping, and a new Trade Alert flashes on their screens.I have to confess that I wonder myself sometimes.So I thought I would run my 2015 numbers to
Global Market Comments January 26, 2016 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE COMING BULL MARKET IN GOLD), (GLD), (GDX), (ABX) (WILL GOLD COINS SUFFER THE FATE OF THE $10,000 BILL), (GLD), (THE PRICE OF STARDOM AT DAVOS) SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX) Barrick Gold Corporation (ABX)
Loyal followers of the Mad Hedge Fund Trader are well aware that I have been bearish on gold for the past five years. However, it may be time for me to change that view. A number of fundamental factors are coming into play that will have a long-term positive influence on the price of the
